With the ICJ due to rule on the issue of their maritime borders in a few weeks' time, Nairobi and Mogadishu remain very much at daggers drawn. By dispatching its foreign minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu to the region, Ankara is hoping to become the indispensable mediator between the two countries.
The debt-ridden American junior oil firm, whose share price has been in a slump for the past year, has had to lower its exploration goals.
After leaving the post of ambassador to Saudi Arabia vacant for more than a year, President Ali Bongo has appointed a non-diplomat from Gabon's Muslim community.
State Power Investment Corp plans source the bauxite it will need for the colossal aluminum plant it is trying to build in Kongo Central from its Coliah mine in Guinea.
The temporary absence of its Grand Master Hamed Bakayoko, who is currently undergoing medical tests in France, has obliged the Grande loge de Côte d'Ivoire to provisionally restructure itself.
The French defence electronics specialist Nexeya is to equip two of the Mauritanian navy's boats but has failed to land a contract with Dakar, which has opted for the combat management system of its giant rival Naval Group.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a welcome excuse for the Norwegian company to suspend financial aid for Ghanaian state initiatives.
Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who now heads his own Parnasse International consulting company, has been in the Beninese capital, Cotonou, since Sunday 21 February.
The legal battle enjoined between Yoweri Museveni and his main political rival Bobi Wine, who is contesting the Ugandan president's re-election, looks like being short-lived. More than anything else, it has allowed a myriad of young lawyers to hog the media spotlight.
The Brenthurst Foundation, set up by the wealthy Oppenheimer family, recently hosted a conference about improving tax collection and fiscal consolidation in South Africa. A tricky issue, as the family also has its own set of offshore holdings.
Zambia's state-owned ZCCM-IH has begun lobbying to obtain the regulatory reform it deems necessary to authorise the new revenues it plans to raise by 2026.
As the only two SADC member states entitled to put forward a candidate for the post of executive secretary at the next summit scheduled for August, the DRC and Botswana are gearing up for a fierce battle to land the four-year appointment.
Morroco's head diplomat Nasser Bourita has pulled the plug on its contracts with lobbyists led by the Republican-allied JPC Strategies but has yet to appoint a new team more compatible with the Biden administration.
Libya's Executive Authority for Air Cargo and Special Flights (EACS) is still actively trying to recover the late Muammar Gaddafi's VIP Airbus A340 grounded in Perpignan, France, since 2014.